Tech debt is good to talk about. It is much harder to act on it. I have a few things I am working on, so it is easier to “cover” them under that umbrella. But it is much harder, at least for me, to work on tech debt entirely. It’s really hard. Having those eyes “on me” and not knowing if we will deliver is scary. It requires a lot of strenght. Sometimes it is easier to just skip it.
But under right conditions, with support of other PBIs, it is right and just to do that.